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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news.cais.net!rtd.com!dgy From: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What cylinder to start from? Date: 10 Aug 1996 03:05:54 GMT Organization: CICDO Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4uguaj$sjd@baygull.rtd.com> References: <32093D6A.1102@aloha.net> <320B510E.7416@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seagull.rtd.com In article <320B510E.7416@www.play-hookey.com>, Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote: >DuckHunter wrote: >> >> As you can see, I''m a full blown neophyte when it comes to hardware, >> what cylinder should I specify to start from in FIPS if I don't want it >> to overwrite any of my existing Win95/Dos files? Should I just leave >> enough space in the 'old' partition to cover all of the files? And not >> worry about what cylinder to start from? > >FIPS won't overwrite active data, so you needn't worry about that. For >the rest, you'll need to decide how much space to allocate to FreeBSD, >and how much to leave for Win95. That depends on the intended size of >your installation and whatever you'll want to do with it. No one else can >decide that for you. You might want to searh through the mailing list archives *before* doing this... Win95 and FBSD have had problems coexisting in the past. Also, FIPS has reportedly caused problems... Perhaps someone with the latest dope will elaborate...? --don